Puzzled Monkey
A podcast that explores the obscurely relevant. Join Gusto as he (painfully) dissects pressing, as well as banal, issues within the spheres of culture, politics and the environment. Expect to encounter bizarre historical events that illustrate how far we haven't come, and how ideas have a propensity to recycle themselves. With any luck, you damn dirty apes will leave each episode more puzzled than you were beforehand.
Puzzled Monkey
Werther's Original
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Season 1
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Episode 5
What inspires people to make the ultimate sacrifice and set themselves on fire as a form of protest? Gusto explores the case of Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit and veg vendor in Tunisia whose self-immolation triggered the Arab Spring, and compares it to the sacrifice of Liu Jin, a delivery driver who set himself alight in 2021 to demonstrate against the exploitative nature of the Chinese gig economy.